Joe Rogan on Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder Rematch

Like did you see the Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder fight? I saw a clip. Holy shit. Were you there? No. No, I watched it at home. Holy shit. How big is Fury though? Fury's tight. Six, seven. Almost three hundred pounds. No, six, nine. Deontay's six, seven. Fury's six, nine. Six, nine, 270 pounds. And he just figured, he said he figured out in the first fight that Deontay, in the 12th round, he started backing Deontay up. Deontay can't fight backing up. Because Deontay is a guy who pushes forward and he's got this ridiculous power. And everybody's scared of his power, so everybody's moving all the time. And Fury realized in the 12th round, after Deontay knocked him down, almost knocked him out, he got up and started chasing Deontay and Deontay fought sloppy. He said he looked awkward. He said his footwork didn't look so good. technique. Yeah, Deontay's known as being this guy who's got an eraser. His right hand's like an eraser. All the mistakes, Teddy Atlas put it this way, all the mistakes of the previous rounds all get erased with one punch. It just shuts people's lights out. And he has that confidence that he has that eraser power. But with Tyson Fury realized, look, Tyson doesn't fight that way. Tyson Fury fights on his toes, he sticks and moves, he did a lot of head movement and a lot of like shucking and jiving. It makes it very difficult for you to figure out what he's doing. Like is he going here, is he going there, is he moving, is he jabbing? He'll come at you like this with two, three fake jabs, then a jab at a right hand. He'll throw a right hand to the body, then he'll throw a left uppercut, he'll step to the side of you, he'll throw a right hand, he'll move out of the way, he'll pop you with a jab as he's moving away. He's like a very technical, like really sophisticated boxer. If you look at the movement that he does, for someone as big as him, it's really kind of crazy. And it's not that he couldn't step forward and smash people and knock people out. It's just he knows the sweet science. Yes. He knows the sweet science, but then he realized for this fight, he had to fight a different way. To shock Deontay, he had to come at Deontay full blast, get in his face from the jump. And that's exactly what he did. He also changed trainers and he went with Sugar Hill who's a Kronk trainer. Kronk is where Tommy Hearns came from, you know, Gerald McClellan, some of the great knockout artists of the past. And Kronk Gym from Emmanuel Stewart was known as being a very offensive style of fighting. They have heavy jabs. They don't touch you with a jab. They're smashing with a jab. Big power in the right hand. Like Kronk was an attacking, aggressive style. They were all known, like they would wear those Kronk shorts, those yellow golden shorts. You saw a guy with a Kronk shorts on, that motherfucker came to kill you. They fought in the gym. Emmanuel Stewart would turn the heat up to 100 degrees. So when they were doing, they were doing like hot yoga in the fucking Kronk Gym because he wanted to build up endurance in these guys. So when you would go into the Kronk Gym in Detroit, it was hot as fuck, like really hot. And that's how he'd force everybody to train under extreme duress. He was an amazing, amazing trainer. He's the guy who rejuvenated Vladimir Klitschko. When Vladimir Klitschko was falling apart because he had gotten KO'd a few times, his style just, he didn't have like an American style. He had this sort of straight up European style and Emmanuel Stewart just shifted his style and just made him concentrate on utilizing that long reach and the big power, that long jab. So when Tyson Fury went with a Kronk trainer for this, he was dead serious. He was going for seek and destroy. He told everybody that's what he was going to do too, but nobody believed him. Everybody thought it was just a hustle. Like him saying, I'm going to knock out Deontay Wilda. I'm going to come after him. I'm going to knock him out in two rounds. Everybody's like, you're out of your fucking mind. Even Deontay was like, you don't believe a word you're saying. You're just talking. You're not going to try to knock me out. That's exactly what he did. That's exactly what he figured out the puzzle. He figured out the puzzle in the 12th round of the first fight. He just realized when he had him backing up, he's like, oh, this guy stumbles on his feet. He gets all awkward and you got him backing up. So he just stuck to him like glue. He took that out. That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I want to start fighting, man. No, no. My son needs to know.